Western Courier

The sun had yet to rise over the horizon, and the parking lot outside Horrabin Hall was largely vacant except for the odd car here and there. When Cadets Josh Zuck and Kelly Ward arrived, we exchanged greetings and were on our way. We stopped briefly in Colchester at the Casey's to fill up the water coolers.… Post the First Comment

Kevin Mellor, 2006 Western Illinois University graduate, recently published his first novel, "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies." The horror novel is about three students at a Midwest college who are anonymous by day, but serial killers at night in a town and university based on Macomb and Western Illinois.… Post the First Comment

Disability Awareness Day will take place today in the Western Illinois University Union Grand Ballroom from 10 a.m.-2 p.m, featuring special guest Bob Lujano. Admission is free for everyone. "Disability Awareness Day is a really important day here on campus because it gives students and faculty a chance to be exposed to different disabilities that they may not know of and experience what it might be like to have the different barriers that individuals with disabilities deal with everyday," said Student Therapeutic Recreation Society president Dana Kroeger.… Post the First Comment

Many gathered together for the annual Murder Mystery Party at 8 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 26 in the Western Illinois University Lamoine Room. "I thought the name (of the event) was self-explanatory, like it was some sort of dramatization of a game of Clue," said freshman forensic chemistry major Meredith Bertels.… 1 Comment